Hacker News: pacamara619

New comment by pacamara619 in "Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review"

pacamara619 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:43:11 +0000

> Alert >This profile has seen a significant increase in reviews. >Although we understand you want to voice your opinion about things in the news and issues trending on social media, Trustpilot is a place for feedback based on genuine buying and service experiences. >Due to this, this profile has been temporarily closed for new reviews.

New comment by pacamara619 in "Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit"

pacamara619 — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:20:58 +0000

It's not just like voting machines if it's just software. Just give it the same DNA as input and check if your results match the others.

New comment by pacamara619 in "LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs"

pacamara619 — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 17:36:17 +0000

From their blog:

> For enterprise-class deployments, TDF has strongly recommended the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and other benefits, including SLA (Service Level Agreements).

My company doesn't need this. We just need a program do open documents and spreadsheets. We don't need an ecosystem, we don't need their cloud, we don't need mobile suppoet, custom features, "professional assistance" or SLAs.

> Despite this recommendation, an increasing number of enterprises have chosen the version supported by volunteers over the version optimized for their needs.

Let that sink in for a second. Basically TDF is saying "we know what's best for you - it's paying us for things you don't need".

It's completely tone-deaf and I'm seriously considering creating a fork called FuckTDF-Suite with everything being identical except removing all mentions of "Community", "Enterprise", and donation prompts.

First Elastic, now this. If you're just salty about not getting money and don't care about the principles of free software, go sell your soul and work for M$FT or Goolag.

New comment by pacamara619 in "Ask HN: What are the experiments Software Developer could do with a microscope?"

pacamara619 — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 22:53:07 +0000

What kind of microscope are we talking about?

New comment by pacamara619 in "Join a browser fingerprinting study"

pacamara619 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:31:48 +0000

>By using this, G--gle will hound you with impossible capchas and privacy-forward search engines will think that you're a bot

A friend of mine had an alternative theory: by making it very very hard to track you, you have shown to be somewhat intelligent and you have shown that you know more about computers than the average Joe. Goolag, knowing you're a somewhat intelligent human, gives you the very hard captchas it needs to train.

New comment by pacamara619 in "Is it wrong to demand features in open-source projects?"

pacamara619 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:12:32 +0000

The privilege you get from owning a project is that you don't have to do shit for anyone if you don't want to. If you don't like the feature someone wants or don't want to work on a bug report, don't.

OpenPLi – Open-Source Set-Top Box Software

pacamara619 — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 03:32:56 +0000

Article URL: https://openpli.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26010312

Points: 65

# Comments: 8

New comment by pacamara619 in "Racial Equity and Justice Initiative"

pacamara619 — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 13:05:27 +0000

These are not the droids you're looking for.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/apple-spent-90000-lobbyi...

New comment by pacamara619 in "Size of helium nucleus measured more precisely than ever before"

pacamara619 — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 14:47:55 +0000

Did you read the article?

"(...) the so- called mean charge radius of the helium nucleus is 1.67824 femtometers (...)"

New comment by pacamara619 in "Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup"

pacamara619 — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 14:41:50 +0000

Inb4 "you can disable automatic updates with these simple 4327 registry hacks and 322 group policies"

New comment by pacamara619 in "Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states"

pacamara619 — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:26:16 +0000

EDIT: by instead of my

New comment by pacamara619 in "Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states"

pacamara619 — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:25:54 +0000

Considering Apple got a very good score for their newest laptop, this is index is broken my design.

New comment by pacamara619 in "I schedule my friendships like I schedule my meetings"

pacamara619 — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:32:14 +0000

> It's just that for busy people spontaneity doesn't happen often enough to maintain a friendship.

Precisely, especially if you want to have multiple engaging friendships.

New comment by pacamara619 in "German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance"

pacamara619 — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 01:13:22 +0000

A newer term being heard more often is "Datensparsamkeit". Id est only saving the absolutely necessary amount of data such that extensive surveillance and data abuse isn't possible.

New comment by pacamara619 in "Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook"

pacamara619 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 18:41:40 +0000

2+ competitors colluding are called a cartel and the reason we have anti-trust laws.

New comment by pacamara619 in "McDonald’s Theory on How Best to Rescue Conversations"

pacamara619 — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 21:50:13 +0000

Great read but I've learned nothing. The only think I took away from this is that I want to go to the maccas but it's closed so thanks for making me hungry I guess.

New comment by pacamara619 in "TikTok: All under-16s' accounts made private"

pacamara619 — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:06:19 +0000

> It tells more about what kind of content you are liking and watching than anything else.

This sounds very much like victim-blaming, I don't think it's appropriate to side with TikTok on this.

New comment by pacamara619 in "My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions"

pacamara619 — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:37:24 +0000

I see an IPv6 address on a computer screen. I want to connect to it from another computer. Copy pasting doesn't work between computers. Am I supposed to type it letter after letter? Am I supposed to send somehow? What if I don't have internet access on the first computer? Do I need to go find a USB stick so I can transfer a file with the IPv6 address? Am I supposed to set up a DNS server of some kind?

I'll keep my IPv4 thank you very much.

New comment by pacamara619 in "Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwanted Items"

pacamara619 — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 02:47:52 +0000

> For inexpensive items or large ones that would incur hefty shipping fees, it is often cheaper to refund the purchase price and let customers keep the products.

I know many online shops which have done this for years, including amazon. It's just a no-brainer to let the customer keep a broken comb instead of making them return it. Shipping costs, people who receive the package cost, opening and inspecting the packaging costs and just processing that return costs a lot. Almost everybody has access to a phone with a very decent camera, that's enough to prove a product was broken on arrival.

New comment by pacamara619 in "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Perfect World Edition"

pacamara619 — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 02:42:02 +0000

> On Italy [name of a map], the flag of Italy is removed

How is the flag of Italy offensive to the Chinese Communist Party?